Sublime

James Coleman,

crystals of imagination.

it helps us create a society of “phony geniuses,” a society in which the capacities of individuals greatly surpass their individual knowledge.

“for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures.”4

the augmentation provided by products helps liberate people’s search for new forms of expression and gives rise to new capacities.

transaction cost theory or new institutional economics.

To hold large volumes of knowledge and knowhow, therefore, we need large networks of people. Yet the relationship between the size of a network and the volume of knowledge and knowhow that it can hold not only makes the accumulation of knowledge and knowhow difficult but also implies that moving or copying the knowledge and knowhow embodied in a la

in a world where knowledge and knowhow are trapped in social networks and are difficult to copy, we should expect large differences in countries’ abilities to crystallize imagination, since differences in the knowledge and knowhow available in a given country should be reflected in the set of products that each country is able to produce.

publicly visible.